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SOUTHERN POWER COMPANY v. NORTH CAROLINA PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY et al.

Term: 1923
Important Dates
Argued: November 28, 1923
Decided: January 7, 1924
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
9-0
Majority
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • Pierce Butler • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • James Clark McReynolds • Edward Terry Sanford • George Sutherland • William Howard Taft • Willis Van Devanter

SOUTHERN POWER COMPANY v. NORTH CAROLINA PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY et al. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 7, 1924. The case was argued before the court on November 28, 1923.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case. The case originated from the North Carolina Western U.S. District Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Judicial Power - no merits: writ improvidently granted
Petitioner: Electric or hydroelectric power utility, power cooperative, or gas and electric company
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Public utility
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 263 U.S. 508
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: William Howard Taft
Who wrote the majority opinion: James Clark McReynolds

These data points were accessed from The Supreme Court Database, which also attempts to categorize the ideological direction of the court's ruling in each case. This case's ruling was categorized as conservative.

See also

External links

The Supreme Court Database

Footnotes

↑ Harold J. Spaeth, Lee Epstein, et al., "2023 Supreme Court Database, Version 2023 Release 1 and SCDB Legacy 07," accessed March 21, 2024

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